Anthony Powell A dance to the music of time

first movement; a question of upbringing, a buyer's market, the acceptance world

Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins - a budding writer- shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art....

Engels | 214 pagina's | University of Chicago Press, Chicago | 1995

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